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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "tomas@tuxteam.de" <tomas@tuxteam.de>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:46:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488AED1D33DE419DDDA551FF3109@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y4OoF2mF7fzP5gQM@tuxteam.de>

> You might enjoy agrep, then. If you want to go further, do some
> research on weighted Levenshtein distance (there /is/ an elisp
> function named `string-distance` for you, then).

(Caveat: Not following this thread.)

FYI, there is Elisp library `levenshtein.el':

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/levenshtein.el


(FYI2: Icicles uses that library, if you have it:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Completion_Methods_and_Styles#LevenshteinCompletion)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-27 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-26  6:42 How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-26  8:27 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26  8:36 ` tomas
2022-11-26  8:43   ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26  8:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26  9:06       ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27  7:31         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-27  7:44           ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27 12:04             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-27 18:25               ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26 10:57 ` Arthur Miller
2022-11-26 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27  6:54   ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-27  7:26     ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27 13:48     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27 18:10       ` tomas
2022-11-27 19:04         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27 19:46         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-11-28  5:07           ` [External] : " tomas
2022-11-28  6:17             ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29  2:00               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:05             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 21:12               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:17               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-04 21:55 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-12-05 23:06   ` Emanuel Berg

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